What bird wouldn't like to live in a cozy little house beneath a fruiting raspberry vine? Delicious, juicy berries right outside the front door and lovely blossoms to fill the air with perfume.... sounds good to me!

Saturday, July 28

Circle cards are fairly easy to construct, and the technique can be used for just about any shaped card that you wish to make. The only thing you must remember is to leave a spine where the card can fold. If you cut all the way through you will only end up with two pieces of cardboard!

1. Use your favourite circle cutting tool to prepare the card base. You will notice that the circle on the left has one flat side, which is the actual fold of the card. The circle on the right is just a single piece of cardboard cut to the same size. I will adhere the full circle to the front of the card so that it appears to be whole.

2. Gather all the pieces you wish to use for your card. I have the card blank, which forms the base of the card; the full circle you saw in the last photo, which I embossed with little dots; a red layer and a purple layer with a piece of ribbon threaded through it; and my coloured image.

3. Simply layer your card as you wish, securing each piece of cardboard with double sided tape or glue.

Wednesday, July 25

I love old glass lamps and have a little collection of them that sits on the top shelf in my studio among my other knick knacks, creations and collectibles. I often have romantic notions of living in a time when you would do your work by lamp light with a feather quill and ink bottle... of course, the lack of a hot shower and dishwasher would be somewhat of a fiasco, but one can daydream. Anyway, here's a free design that would be perfect for the gentlemen in your life.

Monday, July 23

We're currently redoing our front garden to add lots of bird and insect attracting plants, which of course means that we're going to need some housing for our new guests. The image I have for you today is inspired by the work we are doing outside and all the little creatures we share our home with.

Sunday, July 22

Every now and then I feel the need to handle something other than paper or cardboard, which is when I drag out the textiles or the paints or clay... I'm sure a lot of you can relate to what I'm saying! Anyway, I just happen to have a couple of metres of "grubby" calico, hand-dyed by a lovely lady who has a gorgeous little shop at Old Petrie Town - well worth a visit if you are ever in that area of Brisbane. I used some beautiful Prima stamps, inked up with black StazOn, to add the images to the fabric, which actually stamped a great deal easier and clearer than I thought it would. I coloured here and there with my copic markers being very careful to colour well within the lines to give the ink room to bleed across the fabric. A couple of turns in the sewing machine, a length of cotton lace and voila, one pincushion!

Thursday, July 19

Most of us enjoy working with floral images and designs, so today I have a classic, single blossom magnolia for you. You can work with it individually as Sue and I did, or put a couple together as Viv did with her card and bookmark set.

Wednesday, July 18

At the most recent Brisbane Paper Craft Show I picked up these gorgeous little wood chairs from the Twiddleybitz stall - I can never resist making a purchase from them, everything always looks so good! Anyway, I had some lovely hand dyed calico at home that I used to make very tightly stuffed seats for each chair. A few licks of paint, some pieces of lace and trim, a couple of hand stitched cushions, long scrapbooking pins and a scattering of little flowers completed the project!

Monday, July 16

Saturday, July 14

I have so many 6" x 6" books of patterned paper it's ridiculous. I thought it was about time I actually cracked a pack open and put it to good use... this little album was the result. I added some beautiful flowers and a butterfly as well as a sentiment tag using a stamp and punch from Stamping Up. The lace and organza ribbon is from my stash - another area I really need to crack open more often!

Monday, July 9

I found a new button on my drawing program recently and just had to experiment! I like the results too... kind of artsy but rustic as well and perfect for some homegrown veges and infused oils (can you guess who's been watching MasterChef??)

Thursday, July 5

I don't know what I was thinking when I started out on this little drawing adventure! Oh my goodness it took a lot of patience to finish this one... and I don't even want to talk about the colouring! But I am happy with the finished result and I really did enjoy making a card with it. I was going to make a big frilly, fancy frame but once I had the image down on the base card I suddenly decided I shouldn't overcomplicate it any more than I'd already done.

Wednesday, July 4

Some clever person has come up with a fantastic technique to colour your images so that the outline is barely visible. I think it gives a kind of painted look that reminds me a lot of decorative art.

In the examples I saw, the artists all stamped their images with a very light coloured ink. I figured we could all do the same thing by printing our digital images in a very light grey tone. (There's a quick How To at the bottom of this post.)

I really enjoyed this technique and loved the end result. I found that it's important to have a lot of contrast between the different layers of the picture so that each individual element stands out, particularly if they are the same colour group, such as the petals of the poinsettia. Give it a go... start simple and use a fairly large image so you can see what you're doing. Have fun!

HOW TO: Open the image in Microsoft Word and resize it as desired. Right click the image and select Format Picture from the drop down menu that appears. On the left hand side of the next menu that appears, select Picture Colour then click Presets, which will bring up several different colours for your image. The fourth choice along is called Washout, that is what you want to select to get a very light line.

Monday, July 2

I started out drawing an intricate little flower wreath with delicate blossoms, long stamens and pretty curly leaves, but half way through I had to rush to finish and ended up scribbling in the last few flowers for the sake of placement. When I came back to the drawing I was quite surprised to see that the scribbly flowers actually looked much better than those I had so carefully drawn... isn't it always the way?

This image actually comes in a set of eleven files. You get the coloured version, as shown below (but without the watermark), plus ten black and white line drawings. The first line drawing is the basic image, but the other nine have sentiments in the centre. As you can see from Sue's and Viv's images there's a card for every occasion - Thank You, Happy Birthday, Best Wishes, For You, Get Well, Missing You, On Your Special Day, Sympathy and Thinking of You. That about covers it, don't you think?

Sue made this beautiful birthday card (above) in various shades of blue and white. She coloured two of the Happy Birthday images, then cut out the flowes from one and adhered them to the other with foam tape giving her card an extra dimension. She also created a lovely little set of Thank You note cards (below).

This month's challenge is to create an Easel Card using any of the Beccy's Place images. Easel cards are nice and simple to make and look fantastic standing on a shelf or cupboard. For those who haven't made one before I have some instructions here. Remember to use one of the Beccy's Place images, but colours, themes, sentiments, etc. are entirely up to you. ﻿

When you have made your card, take a photo and upload it to your blog then put a direct link below. You can enter as many times as you like and you can submit your card to any other challenge you wish. At the end of the month a random winner will be chosen to receive three images of their choice from my online store. I will personally select a Guest Designer for the month of August... try to get your entry in early as I need to choose the guest designer about a week before the end of the month so they can get started on their cards.

About Me

I love spending time in my craft room designing and creating with paper, fabric, flowers, ribbons, paint... anything I can get my hands on really. I have tried many different arts and crafts and have a particular passion for papercrafts, decorative painting and ribbon embroidery. I love to share ideas and "how to's" with other keen crafters, which is the purpose of this blog. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy what I have to offer.

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